------------- She had been trained, the reader ought to understand, at the same Valabar's Restaurant that still exists in Adrilankha today, and from which those most concerned with victualing still hire, or attempt to hire, the cooking staff; it being said that a man who has cleaned tables at Valabar's will absorb more of the art of cooking than the head chef for any other inn or tavern in the Empire; ------------- I'd not thought about it before, but this gives the impression that Valabar's maintains a good-sized staff of Dragaeran employees, including the cooking staff. I'd always pegged Valabar's as a "family" restaurant where the staff would be nearly entirely Eastern. I figured that the Valabar's did the cooking and management while their cousins and other indirect extended family took care of the more menial tasks. No big revelations there. It just makes me wonder what Valabar's is really like inside.